S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

Mon Oct 11 01:03:55 UTC 2021

> On Oct 10, 2021, at 13:18 , Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote:
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> On 10/10/21 22:10, Geoff Huston wrote:
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>> I have to agree with Doug Barton's earlier observation is that the base problem is that the ISPs are using a flawed business model and they don't want to charge their customers what it really costs to provide them with high speed access, nor do they want to fund additional back-end capacity in their network without some form of offset revenue stream.
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> I think ISP's do want to charge their customers what it actually costs to provide them with a service, but they can't because many ISP's business models are based purely on undercutting their nearest competitor.

Then that’s a flawed business model and one of them will eventually get lucky in each market place and race prices once they are a monopoly.

> I might be naive and hopeful to think that operators will have a blood handshake to set prices where customers can't wag the tail.

Such collusion is usually the basis of antitrust laws and ill-advised at best.

Owen